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Barcelona's Lionel Messi and his father "denied wrongdoing" on Wednesday after the Spanish tax authorities "accused them of defrauding the state" of more than €4M ($5.3M), according to Pinedo & Rogers of REUTERS. Messi and his father, Jorge, "allegedly filed fraudulent tax returns" for the years '06-09. Messi wrote on his Facebook page, "We learned about the action begun by the Spanish prosecutor through the media."